Bhubaneswar, July 11 -- Taking serious note of widespread errors in textbooks for Classes I to VIII, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Saturday ordered a criminal investigation into the entire textbook preparation and publication process.
The Chief Minister also directed the Director of the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) to lodge a separate FIR with the Superintendent of Police, Crime Branch, in connection with the textbook errors.
Earlier, Majhi had constituted a committee headed by the Development Commissioner to investigate the circumstances and lapses that led to the errors in the school textbooks.
Acting on the committee's report, the state government suspended the former SCERT Director and thre...